Being a dedicated town fan i follow the club from top to bottom and always get a good feeling when our youngsters do well. So it's a bit disappointing that we don't produce top quality youngsters anymore and have to buy other clubs better young talent like Omari Hutchinson for example. Bearing in mind the amount of money it costs to run the academy is it viable (profitable) to run it any more. Brentford for example don't have a academy and seem to be doing ok.

Fair point Linkboy. We'll never know how the likes of Ben Knight, Charlie Brown etc would have turned out had they stayed. If we didn't lose so many to "bigger" clubs, it might be easier to answer your question. Your question is also pertinent to the cost of going to Academy level 1 status or whatever is called.

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